DeVries and Spanos to Receive ASME Honorary Membership at 2014 Congress

DeVries and Spanos to Receive ASME Honorary Membership at 2014 Congress DeVries and Spanos to Receive ASME Honorary Membership at 2014 Congress DeVries and Spanos to Receive ASME Honorary Membership at 2014 Congress Warren R. DeVries ASME Fellows Warren R. DeVries, PhD, and Pol D. Spanos, PE, PhD, are among eight pioneers of the building calling ASME will pay tribute to this year during the Society's 2014 Honors Assembly. Dr. DeVries and Dr. Spanos will both get Honorary Membership in ASME during the function, which be held Nov. 17 during the ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Montreal, Canada. First granted in 1880, the establishing year of the Society, Honorary Membership perceives a lifetime of administration to building or related fields. DeVries, Ph.D., an educator of mechanical designing at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and previous individual from the ASME Board of Governors, is being perceived for unmistakable commitments to building training and examination as a teacher; for devotion to propelling the boondocks of disclosure and development through open assistance; and for endeavoring to propel the acknowledgment of building's commitments to mankind through authority in proficient social orders. An innovator in designing training and a famous pioneer in assembling procedures and frameworks research, DeVries filled in as senior member of the College of Engineering and Information Technology at UMBC from 2006 to 2014, where he worked with personnel and staff to expand on UMBC's notoriety for reconciliation of instruction and examination covering the whole range of advancement, from information disclosure through innovation commercialization. Before joining UMBC in 2006, DeVries filled in as executive of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Design, Manufacture and Industrial Innovation. Through its subsidizing, the division empowered disclosure, learning and development in colleges, and dealt with the NSF's job in the legislature wide Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. DeVries was on task to the NSF from Iowa State University, Ames, where was seat of the branch of mechanical designing from 1996 to 2002. Preceding that, DeVries went through two years as a program executive at the NSF, and held workforce positions at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the University of Wisconsinâ€"Madison. DeVries, who is right now the Society's secretary and treasurer, has served the Society in various positions, including as an individual from the ASME Board of Governors from 1999 to 2002, and as senior VP of the Council for Engineering from 1990 to 1999. He got an Outstanding Service Award from the Manufacturing Engineering Division in 1997, and the Society's Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award in 2005 and Dedicated Service Award in 2006. DeVries got his four year certification in letters and building from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., in 1971. He earned three degrees in mechanical designing from University of Wisconsinâ€"Madison: a bachelor's, with distinction, in 1971; an ace's in 1973; and a PhD, with minors in insights, and electrical and PC building, in 1975. Pol D. Spanos Spanos, the L.B. Ryon invested seat in building at Rice University, is being perceived with Honorary Membership for his commitments to the dynamic investigation and structure of assorted mechanical frameworks; for viable instructional methods that have propelled designing training; and for accomplishments coming about because of a fearless responsibility to cultural improvement through building advancement. One of the world's driving specialists on the elements and vibrations of auxiliary and mechanical frameworks, Spanos joined the workforce at Rice University in 1984, and has held the L.B. Ryon enriched seat in building since 1988. He was beforehand on the staff at the University of Texas at Austin from 1977 to 1984. Spanos' accentuation in the territory of elements and vibrations has been on probabilistic, nonlinear and signal-handling angles, with applications to auxiliary building, advanced plane design, seaward building, biomechanics and composite materials. His work has been bolstered by government substances including NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; and by modern consortia. What's more, Spanos is oftentimes engaged with measurable building matters filling in as ace of-the-court and specialized master for the government courts. Spanos filled in as secretary and seat of the Applied Mechanics Division's official board of trustees, and as an analyst and a partner supervisor for a few ASME division diaries. He is the beneficiary of the Society's Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal, the Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award, and the Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award. An individual from the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Spanos got his confirmation in mechanical building and designing science from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1973. He earned his graduate degree in structural designing (elements); and his Ph.D. in applied mechanics, with minors in applied arithmetic and business financial aspects, from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1974 and 1976, individually. He is an enrolled proficient architect in Texas, and an authorized mechanical specialist and structural designer in Greece.